I know. This article confuses me. It seems like the author is saying that Facebook will be promoting and distributing iOS apps, but that's not the case at all. These are Facebook apps. Still a huge opportunity for Facebook, but I hardly see how Apple will benefit. The only way Apple will benefit is if Apple delivers really great Facebook integration into iOS 6. People will respond to that by buying more iOS devices.
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Facebook's App Center Begins Appearing in iOS App
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I know. This article confuses me. It seems like the author is saying that Facebook will be promoting and distributing iOS apps, but that's not the case at all. These are Facebook apps. Still a huge opportunity for Facebook, but I hardly see how Apple will benefit. The only way Apple will benefit is if Apple delivers really great Facebook integration into iOS 6. People will respond to that by buying more iOS devices.
Facebook is an amazing achievement, and a lot of their R&D has improved a lot of core technologies that have advanced the web as a whole - improvements to how PHP is executed, caching technologies, client-server communications and protocols, the list goes on.
Sometimes it's hard to imagine that Facebook is a website given how well it is designed down to the pixel level.
But I agree... change for change's sake... there's too much of that. They know that people will adapt, so they push on.
It's the scale they operate on that is a challenge, their achievement does not really relate to the actual content of the service they provide IMO. Others can and will do it better at some point.
I think this is very dangerous for Apple, they should be thinking carefully about how closely they partner with Facebook. Remember how thrilled Steve Jobs was in announcing the partnership with Google at the original iPhone launch? That hasn't turned out so well, with Google going on to launch Android less than a year later.
I've written a blog post about it here - http://www.peterpetrovski.com/post/24659320815/apple-should-be-afraid-of-facebook-app-center
I've written a blog post about it here - http://www.peterpetrovski.com/post/24659320815/apple-should-be-afraid-of-facebook-app-center
I'm also a bit confused. I reviewed the video mentioned in the link and I still can't figure this out:
Facebook now offers apps. You can purchase apps and play them on your computer's screen right there on the page where you select the apps. Ok. Got.
Mobile Apps: When you select "Mobile Apps" it allows you to select an app like: Scramble With Friends. Once you make the selection, does it shoot you directly to the iOS App Store on your iPhone/iPod/iPad or do you have to input credit card/payment info completely separate from the iOS App Store?
Or. I Facebook just a secondary area to BROWSE for iOS apps and then when you want to purchase an app, it sends you a notification link on your iDevice to make the purchase on your iDevice through the App Store?
Facebook now offers apps. You can purchase apps and play them on your computer's screen right there on the page where you select the apps. Ok. Got.
Mobile Apps: When you select "Mobile Apps" it allows you to select an app like: Scramble With Friends. Once you make the selection, does it shoot you directly to the iOS App Store on your iPhone/iPod/iPad or do you have to input credit card/payment info completely separate from the iOS App Store?
Or. I Facebook just a secondary area to BROWSE for iOS apps and then when you want to purchase an app, it sends you a notification link on your iDevice to make the purchase on your iDevice through the App Store?
Facebook Hurts Computing
Yeah, Facebook, with their amazing stances on privacy, open-source, and free software, is a real "friend" to the development community. Please!
Yeah, Facebook, with their amazing stances on privacy, open-source, and free software, is a real "friend" to the development community. Please!
Why is tinman write lies and wrong in every post. Google phone is even in macrumor story. Can tinman read or is troll. Hmmmm
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Very true. This Facebook integration in iOS6 worries me, it has gotten to the point that just buying something online requires a Facebook login.
I wish Steve Jobs were still here, he would not allow this idiotic move. He was holding it off the whole time. Now the MBAs at Apple take advantage of his death. Sad.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I was very apprehensive about using 3rd party apps on Facebook due to the privacy issue. I have no idea what kind of information they take from my account.
This is good news for Facebook for sure.
This is good news for Facebook for sure.
Faceplant BLOWS
I am so freaking sick to death of Facebook. It's a joke. If you feel the need to waste every spare hour of your life posting God only knows what, while giving all your marketing data to Facebook then have at it. It's your life. All I know is it's a colossal waste of time in my opinion while at the same time they ask far too many personal questions. As with all web sites dedicated to narcissism... they eventually reach the end of their lifespan. It's only a matter of time until people say, "Face-what?".... just like they might say, "Myspace what?".
I will never install any FB crap on my iPad, iPhone, iPod or iMac....
My prediction.... 11 months from now... Faceplant stock.... $2 per share.
BTW... I had 4 or 5 accounts on FB for different web sites I had. But even killed those after I read this:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/miller/120508
Who knows what kind of interesting stranger you may meet on Facebook. If you play your cards right you might get lucky and meet one of the many pedophiles posting kiddie porn on their web site.
I am so freaking sick to death of Facebook. It's a joke. If you feel the need to waste every spare hour of your life posting God only knows what, while giving all your marketing data to Facebook then have at it. It's your life. All I know is it's a colossal waste of time in my opinion while at the same time they ask far too many personal questions. As with all web sites dedicated to narcissism... they eventually reach the end of their lifespan. It's only a matter of time until people say, "Face-what?".... just like they might say, "Myspace what?".
I will never install any FB crap on my iPad, iPhone, iPod or iMac....
My prediction.... 11 months from now... Faceplant stock.... $2 per share.
BTW... I had 4 or 5 accounts on FB for different web sites I had. But even killed those after I read this:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/miller/120508
Who knows what kind of interesting stranger you may meet on Facebook. If you play your cards right you might get lucky and meet one of the many pedophiles posting kiddie porn on their web site.
If you want to take my comment out of context and then comment on it, go ahead, but write in crayons on your bedroom wall, not here where you look silly.
Privacy and technological advancement are two different things. I didn't talk about Privacy.
I totally agree. Facebook is a tedious waste of time and I for one hope it is possible to complete ax anything related to FB, or I will rethink my OS of choice. I have to wonder if Steve would have got into bed with Zuckerberg in this fashion.
This would be scary and a cause for alarm... if it was true.
Firstly, Facebook never changes your privacy settings for you. I've had my Facebook profile since 2007 and never once have they changed my privacy settings away from "Friends only." Also, I have timeline... yet I'm still on "Friends only." Not public.
I wish ANYONE on this site understood how Facebook makes money. They don't "sell" your information to advertisers. Advertisers get on Facebook and decide which demographics they want to target. Then, they post their ad. Facebook shows that ad to people who meet the demographics the marketer selected, and then charges for views and clicks. The marketer never gets the data from the Facebook.
Oh I can't wait to get 80 invites to FarmVille or vampire wars on a daily basis. /sarcasm
Facebook is just place where people can feel important by posting about their great life or complain about their life. It was nice to see some friends from my high school and it's great to get back in contact with friends you haven't seen for years but other than that it's a relationship killer, privacy invader, self esteem killer (for those bothered by other's success), an artificial ego booster (for those that post for attention), and a potential risk to employment.
Really hope iOS 6 offers something bigger than this.
Facebook is just place where people can feel important by posting about their great life or complain about their life. It was nice to see some friends from my high school and it's great to get back in contact with friends you haven't seen for years but other than that it's a relationship killer, privacy invader, self esteem killer (for those bothered by other's success), an artificial ego booster (for those that post for attention), and a potential risk to employment.
Really hope iOS 6 offers something bigger than this.
of course it is true Coltman. Try and play with a FB app or install a new feature, and FB will reset your privacy settings. You have to be careful to reset them how you want them every time. Ditto whenever they change the terms of agreement. It pays to regularly check your settings.
And I didn't say it sells your information. I said it sells you. Your data is aggregated for advertisers, but to improve that aggregation, FB needs as much information about you, and your friends, as possible. Thus it is selling you, indirectly to advertisers, and directly to your friends, in order to entice them to part with more information about themselves, and vice versa. The best FB customers agree to public access, so they can sell as much of you as possible to as many friends, acquaintances and FB friends as possible.
And I didn't say it sells your information. I said it sells you. Your data is aggregated for advertisers, but to improve that aggregation, FB needs as much information about you, and your friends, as possible. Thus it is selling you, indirectly to advertisers, and directly to your friends, in order to entice them to part with more information about themselves, and vice versa. The best FB customers agree to public access, so they can sell as much of you as possible to as many friends, acquaintances and FB friends as possible.
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If only the ios app worked! It is so slow that I don't use it anymore.
Also it annoys me that they have a seperate messaging and photo app? Why not have all in a good way in one app?
Also it annoys me that they have a seperate messaging and photo app? Why not have all in a good way in one app?
OMG, Jo Malone knows that i liked their page on facebook. now the evil bastards will try to sell me some perfume. even worse they will probably wait until its close to my wife's birthday since they know when that is as well
Wow, MORE BLOAT for an already bloated/slow loading/garbage app.
Maybe FB should spend more time fixing their core app, then adding more stuff, hitting the stock market, and putting out photo apps. FB app on IOS is almost unusable it's so slow to load/open stuff.
Maybe FB should spend more time fixing their core app, then adding more stuff, hitting the stock market, and putting out photo apps. FB app on IOS is almost unusable it's so slow to load/open stuff.
I do the same thing. Every time I list a new favorite musician, hobby, movie, or anything, I spend the next week just going through and clicking "Hide all by..." all the junk that spams my feed. And it drives me insane that I can't do it on my iOS app on my phone. That is, when my app actually works.
there goes the neighborhood, social networking is killing the world...
I prefer not to have apps integrated please don't do it
I prefer not to have apps integrated please don't do it
iChrist? What a sad and pathetic display of character for someone who chose that as a username. Sickening, really.
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